MERGEFORM

Overview

The MERGEFORM workflow application takes multiple form data files and merges them into one file. It can also merge form archives into a target form archive by merging the HTML sections from both files.

How it works

All parameters are optional, and parameter names can be set by the process designer. To copy a data from one to another, the only action required is to set the default value as the data to copy and set the data into which you want to retrieve it. There is no limit to the number of parameters.

Parameters

Required parameters

Parameter

Type

Direction

Description

FORM_DATA

File

INOUT

The merge target FORM_DATA. All FORM_DATA_SOURCE parameters will merge into this parameter’s default value (IN) and will update the specified data (OUT) with the result.

FORM_DATA_SOURCE1

File

IN

Specific form data to merge into the target form data.

FORM_FIELDS_MERGE1

Text

IN

The fields to merge from FORM_DATA_SOURCE1 to FORM_DATA, separated by commas. It supports the asterisk (*) wildcard character to select all fields starting with the prefix.

✏️ Note: If you don’t specify a FORM_FIELDS_MERGE[N] parameter, all of the fields in FORM_DATA_SOURCE[N] will be merged.

Optional parameters

Parameter

Type

Direction

Description

FORM_DATA_SOURCE[2..N]

File

IN

Specific form data to merge into the target form data.

FORM_FIELDS_MERGE[2..N]

Text

IN

The fields to merge from FORM_DATA_SOURCE[2..N] to FORM_DATA. It also supports the wildcard character.

FORM_ARCHIVE

File

INOUT

The merge target FORM_ARCHIVE. All FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE parameters will merge into this parameter’s default value (IN) and will update the specified data (OUT) with the result.

FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE[1..N]

File

IN

Specific form archive to merge into the target form archive.

FORM_FIELDS_ARCHIVE[1..N]

Text

IN

Section IDs to merge from FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE[1..N] to FORM_ARCHIVE, separated by commas. It does not support the asterisk wildcard parameter; instead, you must specify the exact IDs of each section to merge.

Examples of parameters

Parameter

Type

Direction

Description

FORM_DATA

File

INOUT

Send value of FORM_DATA Receive value of FORM_DATA

FORM_DATA_SOURCE1

File

IN

Send value of FORM_DATA_VALIDATES_ACCOUNTING

FORM_FIELDS_MERGE1

Text

IN

Send value of ACCOUNT_*

FORM_DATA_SOURCE2

File

IN

Send value of FORM_DATA_VALIDATES_SALES

FORM_FIELDS_MERGE2

Text

IN

Send value of SALES_DECISION,SALES_COMMENT

FORM_ARCHIVE

File

INOUT

Send value of FORM_ARCHIVE Receive value into FORM_ARCHIVE

FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE1

File

IN

Send value of FORM_DATA_VALIDATES_ACCOUNTING

FORM_FIELDS_ARCHIVE1

Text

IN

Send value of ACCOUNT

FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE2

File

IN

Send value of FORM_ARCHIVE_VALIDATES_SALES

FORM_FIELDS_ARCHIVE2

File

IN

Send value of SALES